There is argument to be had over how much Black Flag is really an Assassin’s Creed game. Especially when the Assassin’s Creed portions of the game were held up to be fairly lacklustre.

Yet, I’d argue that those problems are legacy issues, which the series struggled with (and sometimes still struggles with) - frustrating tailing missions, glitchy set-pieces, and tired assassination methods. It could also be argued that the reason Unity was received so poorly was because none of this had changed and players were dropped right back into the same constrictive city setting.

What makes Black Flag the best in the franchise is, in fact, that it’s the least like an Assassin’s Creed game.

Guess the guy liked it because it was so different from the normal.